The former technical director of more than one dozens of Liga MX teams, Rubén Omar Romano, He assured in a conversation with The opinionit is very clear that the current coach of the Mexico national team, Jaime Lozano, His future will be at stake in the next Copa América that will take place in June in several cities in the United States.
“I think that before what happened with the United States, it was clear that the litmus test for Jaime Lozano would be the Copa América And after the defeat against the Americans, the idea has been reinforced that Lozano will put his work in this tournament at stake, I don’t think there will be more if something favorable doesn’t happen,” he highlighted.
What is your opinion that the national team codes have been broken and that several players have aired what happened with Gerardo Martino at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?
I think it was something wrong, because it is not possible for the players who go to Europe to believe that they are different or better than those who play in Mexico and assume this type of attitude to air internal things in the locker room. They go to Europe because they are at a good level, others don’t go because they don’t want to and others because they can’t, but they can’t be talking like they did.
So they were wrong?
Yes, because what Andrés Guardado said, what Edson said, what “Chucky” said is not possible. Well, even what Raúl Jiménez said about working better in Europe. That’s not true, because I ask, how do you measure being professional? For staying for breakfast, watching TV, resting at the club or whatever you assume to be a professional? So I think that going to Europe is not something to feel different either, but rather to support others with your mentality of not feeling better.
What is your opinion of the statements made by Edson Álvarez, Andrés Guardado and Hirving Lozano, which caused people to place “Tata” Martino as public enemy number one? Especially Álvarez’s for not playing against Argentina?
That is what those who don’t know about football talk about, those who don’t analyze that one thing is playing with four defenders and Edson Álvarez and another thing is playing with five defenders and Edson Álvarez. If you have a line of five defenders like Gerardo Martino played against Argentina, he has to have players with much more quality to play.
And he added that: “Where they could have made a mistake is placing Erick Gutiérrez when Andrés Guardado left and not having opted for Edson Álvarez. But that is very different from the atrocities that are said. For example, we all know that with a line of five, one of the defenders breaks back as a containment and there should have been two players who knew how to handle the ball, because Argentino really did not arrive until the 60th minute and the goal ended up being scored by the best player. of the world.
But are the fact that these statements have been made against Martino signs that the national team codes are no longer respected?
It was something unfortunate, statements out of place, at the wrong time, with a point of view where a good coach came to the Mexican team and was able to do well the first two years, but later, at the end, when Gerardo Torrado left the direction of the Mexican teams, like something broke. But the reality is that currently these internal codes are no longer respected, where everything is said, one fights, but things no longer come to light,
Advisors by request, not by imposition
On the other hand, Rubén Omar Romano, after granting the vote of confidence to Jaime Lozano, also commented that advisors could be a good option, but as long as they are requested and not imposed.
How useful could these advisors be?
I think a lot, but as long as he asks for them, not that they impose them on him, they wouldn’t impose them on anyone. But if I could ask, suddenly someone to work with me, to give me things, because I believe that you always have to have a person next to you, with a lot of capacity, sometimes even with more capacity, to open our eyes. and don’t say yes to everything. But he has to ask for them, not have them imposed on him.
What should or should Jaime Lozano ask the managers to improve the level of the Mexico team?
Last Sunday, when the conference was after the defeat with the United States, when they asked him the first question about what he would ask to improve his work, he should have said that the microcycles of work every month with the players who play in Mexican soccer . That would have helped him more than anything else, but I don’t know what he really wants and we can only wish him luck and success so that something positive is done in the Copa América.
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